Word: corns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...start ed are competitions for the best atheist plays, films, paintings and photographs (one entry shows believers gloating over a collection plate). To counter act the emotional appeal of church feasts, the party will give greater emphasis to Russia's secular festivals -such as Cattle Breeder Day and Corn Grower Day, now celebrated joyously throughout the Ukraine...
...just about right for an eight-year-old, is one of many similar "Cornfucius" gags that will soon assault U.S. households. It is part of a radio ad campaign launched this week by the Kellogg Co. of Battle Creek, Mich., a firm that enjoys feeding the nation corn through its eyes and ears as well as through its esophagus. Kellogg is the world's largest maker of ready-to-eat cereals, and its 25 plants, serving 150 countries, turn out the equivalent of 9 billion bowls of cereal a year in 19 varieties. Last week, reporting on 1963, Kellogg...
...terrible story. And yet, Goodwin probably has more writing talent than any other contributor to the Lion Rampant. His story begins, The water was named in derision by a generation of luckless farmers: Burnt Crop Creek, because they had watched the stalks of cotton and even of corn wither in the sun, and heard the heavy winds rattle through the hone dry fields like seeds ticking in a gourd. They merely quit the land, leaving that fractious patient stream to reclaim its banks. Another generation arose, their birthright of planting cancelled: they went through the forest and chalked the highest...
...acres into a dust bowl; most of the new croplands last year failed even to return their seed grain. His hasty campaign to plow under fallow grasslands has impaired huge areas of once-fertile soil since 1958. Khrushchev's evangelical efforts in 1961 to promote mass sowing of corn did more harm than good, as he himself admitted at the meeting...
...Corn Du Bois, Samuel Zemurray, Jr., and Doris Zemurray Stone-Radcliffe Professor of Anthropology, will moderate Radcliffe's second series of Lemann lectures, beginning at 8 p.m. tonight. The three lectures, tonight, Tuesday, and Wednesday in the Radcliffe Graduate Center living room, are entitled "Can We Design the Future?" and will be supplemented by two cross-cultural documentary time to be shows at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Holmes Hall living room...